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New York churches assist new immigrants

NEW YORK — Mennonite Garifuna churches of New York City have been assisting numerous Garifuna immigrants who have arrived since June.

To date, they have assisted about 140 families, helping them with food, clothing, legal assistance and travel fare to legal and medical appointments.

Omar Guzman, pastor of the Mennonite . . .

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

March 16, 2015

From dust to dust

Before we commemorate Jesus’ death and celebrate his resurrection, we confront the fact that we too will die. During the 40 days leading to Easter,

Paul Schrag

March 16, 2015

When culture is right

Letters to MWR have suggested that some Mennonites are changing our views on homosexuality and accepting gay and lesbian people because we are being influenced by

Rachel Stella

March 16, 2015

Nigerians’ suffering

In Middle Eastern churches and the Christian communities of northern Nigeria, our brothers and sisters are suffering. To most of us in other parts of

R. Showalter

March 16, 2015

MWR Inc. donations rise; print declines

HESSTON, Kan. — Donors’ support and lower costs kept Mennonite World Review Inc. budget balanced in 2014 as income increased and print circulation declined. At

Mennonite World Review staff

March 16, 2015

‘I just don’t have the time’

If one more person tells me how “crazy busy” they are and then proceeds to summarize, in detail, the entire season of a TV show

Sarah Kehrberg

March 16, 2015

Marriage put chaotic life in Old Order

It is rare to get an insider’s view of Amish life. It is rarer to get that view from an “English” person who joined the

Katie Funk Wiebe

March 16, 2015

MWR speaker: Politics needs Anabaptist voice

HESSTON, Kan. — A former Kansas budget director who served both Democrat and Republican governors says the question for Anabaptists is not “Should we be political?” but “How should we be political?”

Speaking at Mennonite World Review Inc. annual corporation meeting March 6 at Hesston College, Duane Goossen said politics is fundamentally about how people with different ideas and values live together.

Goossen is senior fellow at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and a member of Southern Hills Mennonite Church in Topeka.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

March 16, 2015

Healthy obsession

Leonard Gross (Letters & Comments, Feb. 16) may well be right that Mennonite Church USA institutions are obsessed with John Howard Yoder. Or not. But for

Rachel Stella

March 16, 2015

Network spreads ‘healthy infection’ in Venezuela

An ecumenical group of church leaders in Venezuela — led by a Mennonite, Erwin Mirabal — describes its educational mission with a metaphor of the gospel of Jesus as a healthy infection.

They say they are “infecting the churches of Venezuela with a sana doctrina (healthy doctrine).”

Holly Blosser Yoder, Central Plains Mennonite Conference | Mennonite Mission Network

March 16, 2015

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